Consider each of the following word problems.
Write a word sentence to represent what you are going to do with the numerical values.
Include the proper brackets, exponents and operation signs.
Substitute the words with an appropriate variable.
Solve each problem in good form.

1. The school library had a used book sale. Paperbacks were 25 cents each and hardcover books
were $1.25 each. There were 54 paperbacks and 163 hardcover books sold. How much money did
the library raise?
2. Tamara has to go on a business trip. Including taxes, her round trip airfare is $398.60 and her
room costs $115.70 per night. The cab fare from the airport to the hotel is $40.00. If Tamara
stays for two nights, how much does the trip cost, excluding the cost of food?
3. Paula repairs swimming pools and earns $14.50/h for the first 35 h she works in a week. For
hours over 35 h, she earns 1.5 times as much. If she works 48 hours in a week, how much does she
earn?
4. Will and Liam collect baseball cards. Will has 26 cards and Liam has 19. They decided to combine
their cards. Because they shared, their father decided that he would triple the number of cards
that they had. After that, their friend Nestor thought that he would add his cards to their bunch.
Nestor didn’t know how many cards he had but he knew that he could lay them out in rows and that
they would make a square with one side of his square having 8 cards. How many cards did the boys
have altogether?